Bill Fisher

President
U.S. Geological Survey
New York Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY 14853
Email: wlf9@cornell.edu

William L. Fisher is a research fishery biologist and leader of the New York Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit and an associate professor in the Department of Natural Resources at Cornell University. He received his B.A. (1976) from University of Louisville, M.A. (1979) from DePauw University, and Ph.D. from University of Louisville (1987). He served as a water quality biologist with the Kansas Department of Health and Environment (1979-1980), and stream ecologist with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service at Auburn University (1989-1991), and assistant leader of the Oklahoma Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit at Oklahoma State University (1991-2008). His research focuses on: applications of geographic information systems in fisheries, management of recreational fisheries, conservation of rare and declining fishes, and sustainable water resources management. He has advised or co-advised 20 graduate students, authored or co-authored over 70 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters, and co-edited the AFS book titled Geographic Information Systems in Fisheries in 2004. He is an AFS Certified Fisheries Professional.

John Boreman

President Elect
North Carolina State University
23 Covington Lane
Durham, NC 27712
Phone: 919-768-7198
Email: John.Boreman@ncsu.edu

John Boreman is currently an adjunct professor in the Department of Biology at North Carolina State University. He retired from NOAA Fisheries in 2008. He received a B.S. (1970) from SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry, and his M.S. (1972) and Ph.D. (1978) degrees from Cornell University. He worked for the US Fish and Wildlife Service as Northeast Region Power Plant Specialist (1974 – 1975) and as a member of the National Power Plant Team (1975 – 1980). He then worked for NOAA Fisheries as a senior assessment scientist and co-manager of the Emergency Striped Bass Study (1980 – 1984), chief of research coordination for the Northeast Fisheries Science Center (1984 – 1989), director of the UMass/NOAA Cooperative Marine Education and Research Program and adjunct professor at UMass (1989 – 1997), deputy director (1997 – 2002) and then director (2002 – 2006) of the Northeast Fisheries Science Center, then Director of the NOAA Fisheries Office of Science and Technology (2006 – 2008). His research interests have included population dynamics of coastal migratory fishes and environmental impacts on coastal ecosystems. He is currently doing consulting work for NOAA and regional fisheries management councils. He is the author or co-author of over 60 publications. He is an AFS Certified Fisheries Professional, and has been a member of AFS since 1971.

Robert Hughes

First Vice President
Robert M. Hughes
Amnis Opes Institute
2895 SE Glenn
Corvallis, OR 97333
Email: hughes.bob@epamail.epa.gov

Bob retired as a Senior Research Professor from the Department of Fisheries & Wildlife, Oregon State University in 2009, and currently conducts research part time on biotic assemblage assessment in Brazil and China and for Amnis Opes Institute in the USA. He received his Ph.D. in Fisheries from Oregon State University, and his M.Sc. and A.B. from the University of Michigan. For 32 years he conducted research for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) as an on-site contractor. His research focused on fish assemblage assessment in streams, lakes, and rivers across large geographic extents in the United States, Europe, Brazil, and India. He developed aquatic ecosystem indicators for the USEPA’s Environmental Monitoring and Assessment Program (EMAP), which contributed to the first statistically-rigorous national assessments of U.S. surface waters. Prior to that research, Bob field-tested the ecoregion concept leading to the USEPA’s national ecoregion map. He has co-authored or authored 125 peer-reviewed publications, been a sponsored participant in eight national workshops on large rivers and bioassessment, and has been a guest speaker in Europe, South America, Australia, and China. Bob has served as an external reviewer for the State of the Nation’s Ecosystems Report, European Fish Index, Great Lakes Environmental Indicators, and National Research Agency of France, and he is a member of Oregon’s Independent Multidisciplinary Science Team, which reviews state actions for rehabilitating salmon and watersheds.

Donna Parrish

Second Vice President
U.S. Geological Survey
Vermont Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit
University of Vermont
Burlington, VT 05405
Email: dparrish@uvm.edu

Donna L. Parrish is the Unit Leader of the U.S. Geological Survey, Vermont Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit and Research Professor in the Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources at the University of Vermont. She received her B.S. in biology from Southeast Missouri State University, M.S. in biology from Murray State University, and Ph.D. in zoology from The Ohio State University. As a scientist in the Cooperative Research Units program, she conducts fisheries research projects in which she mentors graduate students on projects that are developed to address unit cooperators’ needs. Over the last 20 years, her research has focused on three ecosystems within Vermont: Lake Champlain, the Connecticut River, and the Batten Kill. She has led research on trophic interactions, anadromous fish migration, and population modeling of trout among many others. She has been an author or co-author on 45 peer-reviewed publications and more than 75 presentations at scientific meetings. She has been a member of AFS since 1982.

Wayne A. Hubert

Past President
Hubert Fisheries Consulting, LLC
1063 Colina Drive
Laramie, WY 82072
Phone: 307-760-8723
Email: whubert@uwyo.edu

Wayne A. Hubert retired as the leader of the Wyoming Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit on January 1, 2010. He is currently an emeritus professor in the Department of Zoology and Physiology at the University of Wyoming. He has also formed a small firm, Hubert Fisheries Consulting, LLC. He received a B.S. (1969) from Illinois State University, M.S. (1972) from Southern Illinois University–Carbondale, and Ph.D. (1979) from Virginia Tech. He served as an aquatic biologist with the Tennessee Valley Authority (1972-1979), assistant leader of the Iowa Cooperative Fisheries Research Unit (1979-1982), and assistant leader and leader of the Wyoming Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit (1982-2009). His research focused on fish and habitat interactions with a strong emphasis on the needs of native fishes. He advised or co-advised 85 graduate students, authored or co-authored over 275 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters, and co-edited several books. Most recently, he co-edited the 3rd editions of Inland Fisheries Management in North America. He is an AFS Certified Fisheries Professional.

Ghassan (Gus) N. Rassam

Executive Director
American Fisheries Society
5410 Grosvenor Lane
Bethesda, MD 20814